Bibliography of Playing-Card Books

The list is split into numbered sections (and sometimes topics
within sections) in order to impose some structure on such a long
list. Within each topic and within each section the works are
listed in alphabetical order, by author surname. At the end of
each entry is a section number, or numbers, which best describe
the area(s) covered by the book—this is the best way I could
devise for indicating that a particular work may fit happily in
many different sections, although for the works which belong in
one section only it is redundant information. The section numbers
are as follows:

Berry, JohnPlaying-cards of the world: Catalogue of the collection of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and cards owned by Guildhall Library, City of London, where the collection has been deposited since the initial donation in 1908 by Henry Druitt Phillips.

Hoffmann, DetlefAltdeutsche Spielkarten 1500-1650. Catalogue of woodcut cards with german suits at the Deutsches Spielkarten Museum at Leinfelden-Echterdingen and Germanisches National Museum Nuremberg

Schreiber, Lady CharlottePlaying Cards of various Ages and Countries: Selected from the Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Volume II. French and German.

John Murray, London, 1893
text in English.
(1)

Schreiber, Lady CharlottePlaying Cards of various Ages and Countries: Selected from the Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Volume III. Swiss, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, with a supplement of other countries.

Khudozhnik i Kniga, Moscow, 2002
text in Russian. two booklets in colour (one with Pushkin's 'Queen of Spades', another with side-exhibition catalogue) + 72 folding full-colour plates, all in a silk-covered box
(2)

AnonSpielkarten. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Museum zu Allerheiligen

Schaffhausen, 1988
text in German. 11pp + 23 plates.
(2)

AnonThe State Museum-Preserve Peterhof. Playing cards: the collection of Alexander Perelman. New accessions 2000-02.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs etc, Brussels, 1976. Published as Memo from Belgium Nr 174 (later republished in hardback by Aurelia Books)
text in English (also issued in other languages). 152pp. Good illustrations.
(3)

Kaiser, John BoyntonBritish Playing Card Stamp Duties and Their Authorized Stamps with Checklists of Original Dies by Marcus Samuel and The Laws Relating to United States Playing Card Revenue Stamps, Their Purpose, Variety and Use. 1862-1883 and 1894-1960

Octopus, London, 1973
ISBN 0 7064 0049 6
text in English.
(First published 1967 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, also published with German text and title "Spielkarten", by Parkland, Stuttgart with date 1967)
(4)

EASTERN EUROPE

ENGLAND

Berry, JohnTaxation on playing cards in England from 1711 to 1960. (IPCS Papers No. 3)

IPCS, Colchester, 2001
text in English. vi, 87 pp.
(3) (5: England)

Fletcher, W.M."On Some Old Playing-Cards Found in Trinity College" in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, No. XLVII (number 3 of the 11th volume, 5th volume of the new series), pages 454-464, given on Monday 19 February 1906.

Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1907
text in English.
(5: England)

Fletcher, W.M."More Old Playing Cards Found in Cambridge" in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, No. LXVI (the 18th volume or 12th volume of the new series), pages 14-25, given on 23 April 1913.

U of California Press, Berkeley, 1973
ISBN 0-520-01865-6
text in English
(note: this book has twenty pages on the British black and whites, the artist, Barlow, and at least 250 reproductions of cards.)
(6: Politics)